Biman Nath is the author of two novels, Nothing Is Blue and The Tattooed Fakir, and popular science books in English and Bengali. His first novel was shortlisted for the Vodafone-Crossword Fiction Award 2009, and he has received the Rabindra Puraskar from the Government of West Bengal and the Bangla Academy in 2005 for science writing in Bengali. He was born in Assam, and currently lives in Bangalore, where he works as an astrophysicist at an institute.